| | square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter | HSK 4 |
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| | public square; plaza | HSK 2 |
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| | square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) | HSK 4 |
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| | square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively | HSK 7-9 |
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| | square meter | HSK 6 |
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| | to square accounts (between borrower and lender or between buyer and seller) | |
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| | Trafalgar Square (London) | |
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| | cube; block; square / diamond ♦ (in card games) | |
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| | prescription / cooking recipe / formulation / completing the square (to solve quadratic equation, math.) | |
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| | Tiananmen Square | |
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| | to face squarely; to meet head on; to face up to | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved | HSK 7-9 |
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| | least squares (math.) | |
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| | completing the square (method of solving quadratic equation, math.) | |
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| | square (i.e. x times x) | |
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| | inverse square law (physics) | |
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| | displaying strength and discipline / impressive / upright and frank / square | |
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| | old-fashioned square table to seat eight people | |
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| | square brackets [ ] | |
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| | compasses, set square, spirit level and plumbline (idiom); fig. established standard / norms / criteria | |
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| | set square / triangle (for drawing right angles) | |
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| | root mean square (RMS) / quadratic root | |
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| | to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly / to act according to convention | |
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| | square kilometer | |
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| | (hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist | |
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| | a plain / ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan) | |
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| | square / square-shaped | |
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| | square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square) / monastic room 10 feet square / Buddhist or Daoist abbot / abbot's chamber | |
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| | square brackets [ ] | |
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| | Red Square (in Moscow) | |
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| | square-shaped formation (military) / phalanx / (math.) matrix | |
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| | checked pattern / square box character (in Chinese text) indicating an illegible character | |
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| | square | |
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| | a set square (carpenter's tool) | |
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| | Madison Square Garden | |
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| | starting point / square one / (coordinate geometry) origin | |
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| | lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch / back to square one / to start of on a new path | |
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| | lit. like a square peg in a round hole (idiom) / fig. incompatible | |
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| | Monument to the People's Heroes, at Tiananmen Square | |
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| | square root | |
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| | Times Square | |
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| | square meter (abbr. for 平方米) | |
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| | square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China | |
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| | lattice / check (pattern of squares) | |
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| | compasses, set square and straight line marker (idiom); fig. established standard / norms / criteria | |
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| | steel set square (tool to measure right angles) | |
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| | (measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square") | |
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| | square cun (Chinese unit of area: 1 cun × 1 cun, or 3⅓ cm × 3⅓ cm) / heart / mind | |
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| | square face | |
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| | jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies / sundial / (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount; a smidgen; a speck | |
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| | to look squarely at / to look straight ahead / (instrumentation) heads-up (display) | |
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| | to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly / to act according to convention | |
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| | to collect data and square up; to settle accounts | |
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| | square roof | |
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| | squared paper / graph paper / grid paper (manuscript paper with squares for Chinese characters) | |
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| | square headed nut | |
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| | to reset to zero / (fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one | |
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| | square foot (unit of area equal to 0.093 m²) | |
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| | T-square / set square (carpenter's tool) | |
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| | chi-square (math.) | |
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| | square castle / mahjong layout (with the tiles laid out as a square) | |
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| | round coin with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China | |
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| | large square net | |
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| | square-jawed face | |
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| | (coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle) | |
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| | square kilometer | |
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| | method of least squares (math.) (Tw) | |
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| | Santalum album / square wooden pillar | |
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| | to eat three square meals a day and do no work (idiom) / to be sated with food and remain idle | |
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| | to square off / to exchange blows / to rain blows on sb | |
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| | square headed | |
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| | a set square (carpenter's tool) | |
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| | square bamboo container for food or clothing | |
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| | overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square | |
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| | lapis lazuli (mineral of the square albite family) | |
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| | (architecture) square wooden bearing block used to support a bracket in a dougong 斗拱 bracket system | |
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| | carpenter's square / rule / regulation / pattern / to carve | |
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| | copying paper (with printed model characters and blank squares for writing practice) | |
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| | copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) | |
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| | clear and square / neat / square (person) | |
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| | set square (tool to measure right angles) | |
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| | miter square (tool to measure angles) | |
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| | square dance (traditional American dance) | |
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| | If the basin is square, the water in it will also be square. (idiom) | |
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| | Trafalgar Square (London) | |
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| | four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character | |
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| | set square (tool to measure right angles) | |
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| | to settle (an account) / to square up | |
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| | white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph | |
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| | small cicada with a square head | |
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| | mean square | |
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| | square-shaped | |
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| | square / strongly (as of emotion) | |
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| | (of a square shape, such as a house plan) to have a corner missing / (fig.) to lack something / missing piece | |
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| | Madison Square Garden | |
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| | (bird species of China) square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) | |
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| | to have a square meal | |
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| | (oral) to write (esp. for a living) / to spell out laboriously on squared paper | |
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| | inverse-square law (physics) | |
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| | (Tw) a square sheet of pastry, typically pan-fried and served with savory fillings or sweet jam | |
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